Configure your team portal & SSO settings

A team portal (e.g. https://yourteamdomain.start.me) provides easier access to your team pages.

We offer the option to connect your shared pages directly to the subdomain of your choice. There are several benefits to a dedicated team domain:

• Improved brand recognition, as you refer your team members not only to start.me, but also to your organization;
• More visitors and active users, as the shorter URL will easily be remembered. They only have to type in the primary URL;
• Single Sign-On (SSO) for your team members will simplify their life and improve security online;
• Enhanced sharing of pages, as they will automatically appear on your team domain.

Your team domain or homepage will look something like this: https://yourteamname.start.me.

First, request a team domain by clicking the button.

Instructions:

1. Manage Team Portal
2. Authentication
3. Single Sign-On
4. IP Whitelisting

1. Manage Team Portal     [back to top]

Once you've been connected to your own team domain, you'll see some new options to your Team portal menu:

• Team startpage: select the startpage you want your team to open with, every time they open your pages. You do this from a dropdown menu.
• Settings to toggle on or off:
  • Hide sign-up button
  • Hide sign-in button
  • Hide search bar
  • Hide cookie consent bar
  • Hide footer
  • Open all links in a new window

Changes may take several minutes to implement.

2. Authentication     [back to top]

With your team domain, you get to decide which login buttons your team members will see when logging in. You can toggle the options you like.

If you want to whitelist an e-mail domain, you can do this here too: 

• Type the e-mail domain in the dialogue.
• Click Plus to confirm.
• Click Save settings to apply your changes.

Changes may take several minutes to implement.

3. Single Sign-On[back to top]

With this feature, you can make sure your team members gain access to your team pages automatically with their existing work account (Google/G Suite, Microsoft/Office 365, etc). They don't even need a start.me account.

Benefits of using single sign-on include:

• Mitigate risk for access to 3rd-party sites (user passwords not stored or managed externally)
• Reduce password fatigue from different username and password combinations
• Reduce time spent re-entering passwords for the same identity
• Reduce IT costs due to a lower number of IT help desk calls about passwords

We support the following SSO user authentication standards: OAuth, SAML and OpenID.

Send an email to support@start.me or Submit a Request to activate this feature.

4. IP Whitelisting     [back to top]

IP Whitelisting only allows access from a determined and controlled IP Address.

With this team feature, you can add a layer of security to your pages. You can also make it possible for your employees or team members to log in and access your shared pages without a username or password.

Send an email to support@start.me or Submit a Request to activate this feature.